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UPDATE
September 15, 2023
"To my way of looking at things,
Anything other than the pure act of playing
Is social propaganda."
—Matthew Shipp
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Essential Artists
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• Amadou/Cambien/Rempis
• Fred Anderson Quartet (Anderson/Brimfield/Drake/Hayrod)
• AUTORHTYHM
• John Butcher/Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble
• CALATO/John Cage
• Jordan Dykstra
• Scott Fields Ensemble
• Hans Koch/Christine Abdelnour
• Kromeshna/Chefkirk
• Leap Of Faith
• Paul Lytton/Erhard Hirt
• Francisco Meirino/Jerome Noetinger
• Charles Mingus
• Rodrigues/Lonberg-Holm/Flak/Madeira/Oliveira
• Rodrigues/Parrinha/Flak/Santos
• Matthew Shipp
• Simulacrum
• Harri Sjostrom/Erhard Hirt/Philipp Wachsman/Paul Lytton
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Essential Labels
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577 Records
Aerophonic
Ayler
Bead
Besperech'
Corbett vs. Dempsey
Creative Sources
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Editions Verde
Evil Clown
ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Klanggalerie
Mahakala Music
thanatosis produktion
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This weekend, from Friday September 15th through Sunday, September 17th,
all used CDs in our catalog are on sale at 20% off their listed price! Most items in our used collection
are lightly used copies that we used to catalog the new albums listed on our site, and unless otherwise noted,
are in near mint condition. So have a good look through our used CD category, where you'll find some great
albums selling at 20% off of their pre-sale price!
View Our List of Used CDs
20% Discounts end Sunday, September 17, 20232 at 23:59 EST (GMT-4).
Prices shown are discounted price. While quantities last, sold out items will disappear from the store.
Customers must place orders using our shopping cart to receive discounted prices.
Sale items are not eligible for Squidco Reward Points.
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Jazz & Improvisation
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Amadou / Cambien / Rempis: On The Blink
(Aerophonic)
After sharing a stage with Belgium bassist Farida Amadou--whose collaborations include Peter Brötzmann, Steve Noble, and Thurston Moore--Chicago saxophonist Dave Rempis and Amadou sought an opportunity to record together, joining with Amadou collaborator and Clean Feed artist, pianist Jonas Cambien, to record these startling studio improvisations during a 2022 tour in Belgium and The Netherlands.
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Anderson, Fred Quartet (Anderson / Brimfield / Drake / Hayrod): Milwaukee Tapes Vol. 2
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
An original member of the AACM and owner & director of the Velvet Lounge jazz club leading Chicago's free and experimental music scenes, and a mentor to countless young jazz musicians, tenor saxophonist Fred Anderson is heard in the counterpart to the 2000 Unheard Music Series album, The Milwaukee Tapes, this 2nd unissued volume of material from the same 1980 concert.
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Butcher, John / Pat Thomas / Dominic Lash / Steve Noble: Fathom
(577 Records)
The debut for UK saxophonist John Butcher on 577 Records is this exemplary 2021 live recording at Cafe OTO in London by the quartet of Butcher on tenor and soprano saxophones, Pat Thomas on piano, Dominic Lash on double bass and Steve Noble on drums, four of the UK's leading free improvisers demonstrating their prodigious abilities in concentrated conversation.
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Fields, Scott Ensemble: The Songs of Steve Dalachinsky
(Ayler)
Irish guitarist and composer Scott Fields has worked with the poems of late New York writer Steve Dalachinsky over the years, here bringing together an ensemble of improvisers, electronic and contemporary classical performers to set a suite of six poems by Dalachinsky sung by soprano Barbara Schachtner, with interludes between each weaving them into a larger and satisfying opus.
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Koch, Hans / Christine Abdelnour: FFlair
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Born from a project from the "Jazz in Chur" association where Swiss jazz musicians team up with a musical partner from a country with a different language and cultural region, here between Swiss saxophonist Hans Koch and Lebanese saxophonist Christine Abdelnour, the two recording their half of the duo independently, joined in the studio and split left & right for a stunning and unanticipated collaboration.
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Leap Of Faith: Coherent Alternatives
(Evil Clown)
Leap of Faith is the core duet of the Leap of Faith Orchestra (LOFO) comprised of PEK on clarinets, saxophones, double reeds & flutes, and Glynis Lomon on cello, aquasonic & voice, here joined by John Fugarino performing on trumpet, slide valve trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and leveraging the vast Evil Clown arsenal of percussion devices.
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Lytton, Paul / Erhard Hirt: Borne on a Whim: Duets, 1981
(Corbett vs. Dempsey)
The first release from Corbett vs. Dempsey drawing on the Paul Lytton Archives, this recording of electronic & acoustic improvisation from UK percussionist Paul Lytton and German guitarist Erhard Hirt was recorded in Belgium in 1981 for the German Po Torch label, founded in 1976 by Paul Lovens & Paul Lytton to release forward-looking forms of free improvisation.
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Mingus, Charles: At Antibes 1960, Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Restoring and remastering the 1979 Atlantic album Mingus at Antibes from bassist & composer Charles Mingus, an extraordinary concert from the 1960 Antibes Jazz Festival with the masterful sextet of Eric Dolphy on alto sax & bass clarinet, Ted Curson on trumpet, Booker Ervin on tenor saxophone, and Dannie Richmond on drums, with Bud Powell or Mingus himself on piano.
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Rodrigues / Lonberg-Holm / Flak / Madeira / Oliveira: The Giving Tree Moving On
(Creative Sources)
Adding Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm to their string-oriented improvisation, the Portuguese collaborative quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues on viola and crackle box, João Madeira on double bass, Flak on electric guitar and percussionist Jose Oliveira perform an 8-part suite of entwined strings and subtle punctuation, a selfless blending of masterful skill.
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Rodrigues / Parrinha / Flak / Santos: Die Zwitscher-Maschine
(Creative Sources)
Referencing Twittering Machine, a 1922 painting by Paul Klee that depicts a group of birds on a wire connected to a hand-crank, interpreted as as a visual representation of the mechanics of sound, the ea-improvising quartet of Ernesto Rodrigues (viola), Bruno Parrinha (bass clarinet), Flak (electric guitar) and Carlos Santos (modular synth) present three hi-tension improvisations.
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Shipp, Matthew: The Intrinsic Nature Of Shipp
(Mahakala Music)
Recording in the studio in NYC in 2023, pianist Matthew Shipp presents ten concise improvisations, forcefully powerful statements from energetic complexities to contemplatively inventive abstractions, at times explicitly referencing jazz tradition with an innate lyricism, at times bulldozing through tradition to create something uniquely Shipp.
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Simulacrum: Reincarnations
(Evil Clown)
A quartet of collective improvisors focused on the merging of percussion and electronics from the Boston project Simulacrum in an extended transmigration, here with Bob Moores on guitar and synths, former Cecil Taylor bassist Albey onBass, keyboardist Eric Zinman also performing on drum kit, and David Peck on reeds, winds, electronics and percussive devices.
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Sjostrom, Harri / Erhard Hirt / Philipp Wachsman / Paul Lytton: Especially For You
(Bead)
A concert recording on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Einstein Kultur in Munich from the quartet of Erhard Hirt on guitar & computer and Paul Lytton on drums, percussion & objects (half of the Quartet XPACT) plus Harri Sjostrom on soprano & sopranino saxophones and Philipp Wachsmann on violin & electronics, presenting a remarkable set of collective ea-improvisations.
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Experimental/Electronic
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AUTORHTYHM: Songs for the Nervous System [VINYL]
(thanatosis produktion)
An investigation into the depths of the body's neurological frontier from Swedish electronic artist Joakim Forsgren, presenting a series of intuitive compositions drawing from the latest medical research on how light and sound at specific frequencies has a potential to affect bodily functions, using analog synthesizers to create retro-rhythmic environments of flowing sound.
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Dykstra, Jordan: 14 Horse Bells
(Editions Verde)
Recorded in Brooklyn by Jordan Dykstra performing on viola, electronics, percussion & programming, this is the second release in his subharmonic series "Seeing the Forest in a Tree", exploring one conceptual idea with four radically different realizations through arrangements contrasting the acoustic sources of viola & bells with prepared speakers and sine-tones.
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Kromeshna / Chefkirk: Surfaces
(Besperech')
Mysterious sonic collaborations between Russian experimental electronic musician Vitaly Maklakov, who runs the Torga Amun and Ostroga labels, and Oregon sound artist CHEFKIRK (of the Bicephalic label), merging field recordings and experiments with tape & synths to create five works of submerged sound amid enigmatic detail; mastered by Squidco's own Carl Kruger.
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Meirino, Francisco / Jerome Noetinger: Drainage, In Six Parts
(Klanggalerie )
Recording in Switzerland at La Becque Residency Center, the experimental improvising duo of Francisco Meirino on synth & field recording and Jerome Noetinger using electronics, tape, reel to reel player & radio, create a 6-part series of unusual sonic interactions, patiently exposing unidentifiable sounds and synthetic punctuation, neither subtle nor explosive but wonderfully engaging.
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Compositional
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CALATO / John Cage: Variations + Four6
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
Calato, the quartet of Javier Areal Vélez, Jorge Espinal, Agustín Genoud and Pablo Verón based in Buenos Aires, formed in 2010 as an improvisation and experimental composition group exploring music notation and graphic scores in convergence with free improvisation, performing on prepared electric guitars, drums, sampler and amplified voice, here taking on two works by John Cage: Variations I-III, and Four6.
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The Squid's Ear is Squidco's companion online magazine, featuring reviews of Squidco items from independent writers.
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Recent Reviews on The Squid's Ear
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Chefkirk & Crank Sturgeon:
Nice To Err With You
(Love Earth Music)
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Magnus Granberg:
Evening Star, Vesper Bell
(Another Timbre)
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Shaking the Squid Entries January 10, 2020 - September 27, 2022
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Evan Parker:
NYC 1978
(Relative Pitch)
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Ensemble Discoveries:
Offshore Adventures
(Creative Sources)
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Guillaume Gargaud / Patrice Grente / Thierry Waziniak:
OMUSUE
(TORF records)
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Miles Davis with Tadd Dameron:
Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Sergio Armaroli:
I Dream I Was an Earopean
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut, Ltd.)
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Archie Shepp:
Four for Trane to Live Newport 1965 Revisited
(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)
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Olie Brice/Binker Golding/Henry Kaiser/N.O. Moore/Eddie Prevost:
The Secret Handshake with Danger Vol. One
(577 Records)
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The Acrylic Rib (Albert Cirera / Olie Brice / Nicolas Field):
As Far as November
(Listen! Foundation (Fundacja Sluchaj!))
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The Names (Nutters / Frasch / Khorkhordina / Park / Tolimieri):
The Alte Munze Sessions
(Waveform Alphabet)
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